# The 32 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation will meet for a two-day summit in Ankara, Turkey, starting today. The meeting comes at a crucial time for the alliance, with tensions with the US over Iran and Greenland. The nations agreed last year to invest five-percent of their gross domestic product in defence. […]
# DA Federal chairperson, Solly Msimanga, says the party’s federal executive council will investigate the impact of John Steenhuisen’s allegations about Tony Leon and his public relations firm Resolve Communications, and whether this brought the DA into disrepute. Steenhuisen has claimed that DA ministers, including Communications and Digital Technologies minister Solly Malatsi, were influenced by […]
# Die Raad van Gesondheidsorgbefondsers sê gesondheidsorgstelsels reg oor Suider-Afrika is onder ongekende druk. Hy sê dit word veroorsaak deur kleiner begrotings, ernstige personeeltekorte en die toenemende las van siektes. Volgens die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid gaan sowat 15-persent van gesondheidsorg se besteding verlore deur bedrog, vermorsing en misbruik wat die sektor byna 30-miljard-rand kos. ʼn Woordvoerder […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus het die Openbare Beskermer gevra vir ‘n ondersoek na die proses wat gelei het tot die voorlopige skorsing van Tshwane se stadsbestuurder. Johann Mettler word beskuldig van finansiële wangedrag, wanadministrasie en growwe pligsversuim. Grandi Theunissen van die VF Plus sê daar is ʼn sterk vermoede dat die besluit polities gemotiveerd is […]
# Soccer: 2010 champions Spain as well as Belgium are through to the World Cup quarterfinals. Mikel Merino’s stoppage-time goal secured a 1-0 victory for Spain in their last 16-tie against Portugal in Dallas. The defeat for Portugal has resulted in Roberto Martinez stepping down as head coach, while Cristiano Ronaldo revealed before the tournament […]
# Die Padvragvereniging sê hy is nie oortuig dat die Wysigingswet op die Administratiewe Beregting van Padverkeersmisdrywe padgebruikers se huidige gedrag sal verander nie. Fase twee van dié wet is Woensdag ingestel. Die doel van die wet is onder meer om gehalte, veiligheid en dissipline te bevorder, die beregting van verkeersoortredings en die instelling van […]
# Die MK-party doen ʼn beroep op die regering om onmiddellik gevangenes wat buitelanders is te repatrieer. Hy sê die land bestee jaarliks sowat 4,2-miljard-rand om hulle in die tronk te hou. Daar was verlede maand 27-duisend-880 buitelanders in Suid-Afrikaanse tronke. Dit sluit in 13-duisend-266 gevonnisde oortreders en 14-duisend-614 verhoorafwagtendes. Die MK-party sê byna die […]
# A coordinated international crackdown on human trafficking has led to the identification of two-thousand-and-70 victims, the arrest of one-thousand-and-24 suspects, and the launch of 465 investigations. Operation Global Chain, coordinated by Interpol, brought together law enforcement from 59 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe in June. It targeted trafficking networks involved in […]
# Tennis: World number 114 Arthur Fery stunned Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov, 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6, at Wimbledon to become the first British wild card to reach the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam in the Open Era. Fery will face Italian Flavio Cobolli, who ousted Australia’s Alex de Minaur, 7-5, 7-6, 6-3. American Taylor Fritz […]
